Ingredient dictionary
Garlic on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Garlic is a kind of onion-family vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 145,302 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 111 kcal and 5.3 g protein.
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Does garlic contain an allergen?
Garlic is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.
Is garlic vegan?
Yes. Garlic is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does garlic have on a label?
On European labels it is “ail” in French, “Knoblauch” in German and “ajo” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- ail
- German
- Knoblauch
- Spanish
- ajo, diente de ajo
- Italian
- aglio
- Dutch
- knoflook
- Portuguese
- alho
- Polish
- czosnek, czosnku
- Swedish
- vitlök, vitlöks
- Danish
- hvidløg, hvidløgs
- Norwegian
- hvitløk
- Finnish
- valkosipuli, valkosipulia
- Czech
- česnek, česnek kuchyňský
- Hungarian
- fokhagyma
- Romanian
- usturoi
- Croatian
- češnjak
- Turkish
- Sarımsak
Which foods contain garlic?
Open Food Facts lists garlic or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 145,302 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and processed meat. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 68,871 · France 34,577 · United Kingdom 10,538 · Germany 10,465.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where garlic turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in garlic?
Garlic has about 111 kcal per 100 g, with 5.3 g protein, 19 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Garlic, fresh” (the closest food in the table) in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 1.2 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 5.8 g, salt 0.02 g, energy 470 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11000 (the closest food in the table). A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is garlic?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, garlic sits under onion-family vegetable and root vegetable.
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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.
- Open Food Facts: Garlic
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- Wikipedia: Garlic
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